Just wanted to say I am impressed

CabeSipes · 08-07-2009, 08:14 AM

If you know who I am you know I am a car fabricator and have been for years. If you dont know now you do. I have been involved and built 1000's of cars and if you look at car magazines you more than likely have seen my work. Over the years I have searched for installers and fabricators that were worth there weight and its not easy. I find it amazing that here on these forums I find hundreds of people that do some pretty amazing fabrication and installation work. I just wanted to say you guys impress the hell out of me. Sorry if its off topic so here, to fix that, show me your best fab skills.

1.Who has a full 5.1 or 7.1 surround in there car and show me your onscreen controls and system.

2.Who is hitting 150db or better with there car pc setup.

3.Full fiberglass?

4.Do you have something you invented or created that is the only one in the world?

Im curious because Im throwing around a crazy idea to build another show car for SEMA and CES and if I find people on here that I beleive could contribute to that build than I would like to incorporate them into it.

Bugbyte · 08-07-2009, 09:49 AM

Motorized screens are standard in many installs, but this one was one of the early ones and solved a problem for an odd shaped dash front.

Making and embedding a dock inside the dash for the Mac Mini worked great and I'm pretty sure I have the only lunchbox style handle (to allow removal from the dash) on a Mini in the world.

Also, a nice detail was repurposing the cup holder to showcase a Griffin Powermate way before BMW thought of it.

CabeSipes · 08-07-2009, 02:03 PM

i like the screen. how did you do it. i have never seen a homemade flip like that, they are usually straight up and down......interesting

2k1Toaster · 08-07-2009, 03:01 PM

For fiberglass, you should check some of "Nexon"'s work. I think he has a couple show off threads where he displays what he has made for other people. Top notch figerglass/bondo work.

soundman98 · 08-07-2009, 04:15 PM

i can't think of anyone that has gone the 5.1/7.1 route yet, mostly because there is no need to in most installs, and most music is only 2 channel, but there are plenty of programs that should allow you to easily implement a 5.1 system w/ eq, time alignment, and crossovers.

here is a quick pic of my audio setup-- this would be a computer controlled active 3-way setup:

this is a older picture, i have since added a 30hz highpass to the sub, and a 20khz lowpass to the tweeter, and have tweeked the settings a little more, but i could deffinatly run a surround sound setup if i chose to, using the stuff i already have(i really only need to add the wiring and amp for the rear speakers, and a center channel).

CabeSipes · 08-07-2009, 05:49 PM

What software do you have that has crossover and eq points? I never knew of such a thing. Alot of my customers by dvd audio discs which are all in 5.1 and sound amazing if you have the setup in your car. I will check out Nexon also.

Bxsteez · 08-07-2009, 06:18 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by 2k1Toaster

For fiberglass, you should check some of "Nexon"'s work. I think he has a couple show off threads where he displays what he has made for other people. Top notch figerglass/bondo work.

Yea Nexson and rdholz(not sure if i spelled that one right) do some spectacular work. Nexson is an admin on another site where he has tons of work. I forget the website though.

trader007 · 08-07-2009, 06:39 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by CabeSipes

Over the years I have searched for installers and fabricators that were worth there weight and its not easy. I find it amazing that here on these forums I find hundreds of people that do some pretty amazing fabrication and installation work.

finding good workers is almost as hard as finding work. even on these forums, youll find some pretty ambitious projects only to turn out somewhat as good as it should have (see my project for a perfect example, although im not fully done). but overall, i agree with you i think many of the people here actually are pretty decent fabricators.

kev000 · 08-07-2009, 08:56 PM

In Linux (and OSX) we have an audio piping api called "JACK". It allows piping of sound through multiple JACK-enabled processor applications and EQ's. Coupled with a real-time kernel and 5.1 surround sound. I bet you could build a killer sounding system.

http://jackaudio.org/applications

"wirelessdreamer" messes a lot with real-time processing using JACK.

AcidPunch · 08-07-2009, 09:25 PM

Hey Cabe.

The master fiberglasser's name on here is "Nexson" ... not "Nexon." Not meaning to be nit-picky...so no offense guys.

CabeSipes · 08-07-2009, 09:32 PM

I think an audio plugin for centrafuse would be amazing. Basically like audio control or arc audio processors. I know someone made a plugin for the audison bit one but I want a plugin based on software or a program for windows. I have been talking to a few programers about this and it can be done, they are just waiting on me to tell them what it should have. I dont want it to be so confusing that you have to be an audiophile to understand. I want it to be very visual so its self explanatory.

I did look at Nexsons (thanks...got it this time...sorry) work and he is good. It looks like he does the exact same things I do. I just finished my mold in on my Avalanche. The previous screen I had molded in was a 15" lcd I disassembled from a flip-down. I will see if I can find any pics to upload..........I will first need to figure out how to upload them here though

freeflashstuff · 08-07-2009, 09:37 PM

And it's rdholtz. Not rdholz.

Bxsteez · 08-08-2009, 04:24 AM

I was close

soundman98 · 08-10-2009, 02:33 PM

easy to use interfaces are far and few between (kind of like good installers)

the program i am using is called Console, and i am using a bunch of vstplugins(the tiny squares on the screen) to control/manipulate/modify the audio. as it stands, this program is not something that i would personally ever feel comfortable offering to the masses, as it is just way to easy to mess things up--if you could set it up to run hidden, or minimized, it would not be that bad--but if people get ahold of it, it could be the equivelant of letting a 10yo loose with a screwdriver and extra wire near all the amps.

there is a also a windows application of the same type that kev000 talked about, it is called Virtual Audio Cable (most refer to it as VAC), and also allows you to re-route the audio stream in the computer to different applications. i haven't used the jack app, so i can't say how different/simillar they are.

Bugbyte · 08-10-2009, 03:04 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by CabeSipes

i like the screen. how did you do it. i have never seen a homemade flip like that, they are usually straight up and down......interesting

Simple. Used a big old radio control servo and a pushrod. At various times I have had it connected to a serial controller to control open and close speed. Right now I use a servo tester to get it to the proper opening position and usually just close it manually when the power is off.

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